Tejas Gawande
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Co-founder, Chronicle. Product geek.
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Or, as Nietzsche put it in an aphorism cited by Oppezzo and Schwartz, “All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”
I wouldn’t go so far, but the spirit of the sentiment seems true enough. I’ve lately heard a great deal about how writing is a form of thinking. There is a stronger sense in which one could take that claim, but it at least means... See more
I wouldn’t go so far, but the spirit of the sentiment seems true enough. I’ve lately heard a great deal about how writing is a form of thinking. There is a stronger sense in which one could take that claim, but it at least means... See more
The Ambling Mind
Both writing and waking, each in their own way, seem to calibrate the tempo of our minds to the rhythm of thought
Cultivate optimistic delusion. Ref: Sam Altman
A beautiful thought from Estée Lauder on seizing the moments in life that matter the most. https://t.co/KlWQOn2Zvj
People make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks, and embracing every possibility.
Forget the myth of the 'Eureka!' moment, and allow me to suggest another way: the bucket theory of creativity.
Buckets are little homes for the things you want to explore deeper.
Maybe you’ll write or draw or build about them one day, but that’s not really the point.
All you gotta do is make some buckets.
Because making buckets creates a magnetic... See more
Buckets are little homes for the things you want to explore deeper.
Maybe you’ll write or draw or build about them one day, but that’s not really the point.
All you gotta do is make some buckets.
Because making buckets creates a magnetic... See more
Alex Dobrenko` • The Bucket Theory of Creativity
Skinner’s three key insights — immediate rewards work better than delayed, unpredictable rewards work better than fixed, and conditioned rewards work better than primary — were found to also apply to humans, and in the 20th Century would be used by businesses to shape consumer behavior. From Frequent Flyer loyalty points to mystery toys in... See more
Gurwinder • Why Everything Is Becoming a Game
Gamification: Evolution of a concept from friend to foe
Consume old stuff when you're young and new stuff when you're old. This is the opposite of what most people do
David Perell • Tweet
Algorithms have us addicted to distraction, and we need a "Slowness Revolution" to pull us out
- LLMs are reading companions. When Patel is reading a book, he uses LLMs to understand concepts that he isn’t familiar with, like the nuances of White’s argument about how the stirrup created feudalism. “There's a bunch of stuff that's confusing...on these kinds of questions. The author is dead...but I can always continue the conversation with
Every • A Guide to Lifelong Learning—With AI
How to use AI to accelerate learning
In my opinion a good hobby has gear you can nerd out on, increasing levels of skill or knowledge that are never finished, is meditative and creates flow state, and naturally creates social connection.
Jack Altmanx.comCriteria for good hobbies
In a pre-AI world, in order to build an application, you needed to reduce your idea to a process—a set of rules by which your software would operate to accomplish the goal you set. Sometimes this was easy; for example, a customer relationship manager like Salesforce is naturally reducible to rules.
In a post-AI world, you can build applications for... See more
In a post-AI world, you can build applications for... See more
Dan Shipper • Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines
Process vs. intuition